Overview

Save Your Prayers Send Money boldly takes on the wellness industry. Kirton delves into disability politics through the lived experience of a seventy-year-old Metis woman and recovering New Ager. A hybrid collection that moves fluidly between prose and poetry, Save Your Prayers Send Money weaves intergenerational trauma and its impact on health through the daily realities of chronic pain and illness. These poems explore where healing might lie and how a peace might be found whether we heal or not. The weft supporting them all is the importance of belonging, of blood memory and cellular memory reaching back to our earliest Ancestors.

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""What emerges over the course of this collection, animated by the question of what healing might look like in relation to chronic conditions, is a web of ancestral and community belonging.""—melanie brannagan frederiksen, The Winnipeg Free Press

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Jnna Kirton, an Icelandic and Red River Metis poet, was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Treaty 1, the Traditional Lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and the homeland of the Metis. One of the co-founders of Indigenous Brilliance, she currently lives in New Westminster BC, the stolen land of the Hul'qumi'num speaking peoples. Jnna graduated from the SFU Writer's Studio in 2007 and since that time has published three books with Talonbooks. She was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver's Mayor's Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category. Her second collection of poetry, An Honest Woman, was a finalist in the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

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